[AiboPet]

In around 2005 or so (about the time Stringer showed up and killed all things robot for Sony...and I left..for Kia...to be on the design team for funny little hamster cars), Sony came out with a little OLED set that would run you like $1600. It was VERY small. I think 11" or so.

Every single one of those that friends bought (employee discounts, etc)....are DEAD now. Almost every one of them have lost the blue OLED to age. One I know that was built into an Xbox thing.....is HORRIBLY dead and has a burn-in you ONLY see when it's on.

OLED looked REALLY beautiful.....but even the little "KIWI" computer in one of my cars with a tiny OLED display, is burned in. It always seems the blue is a problem still with longevity. They really HAVE to get past the longevity issues....and of course these are also still WAY too expensive.

So far....I'm having GREAT luck with a 55" Samsung LED backlit set I replaced a dead 37" Viewsonic LCD with (lost a backlight...since replaced and is a FlightSim monitor). That Sammy was like $2,500 about three years ago. I hope it lasts at LEAST five years for that kinda money, but would be of course much happier if I got closer to TEN years out of it before wanting the next thing. At THIS point.....I think LED backlit LCD is deffinately the CRTs killer. I have heard of several things that do go wrong with Samsung LED sets though. I hear ALOT about power supply caps.